“The Record trial raised the question whether the entire system is corrupt. To the extent that we can’t trust the data, we are in jeopardy of giving patients the wrong drugs.

“My feeling is that the pharmaceutical industry has no business at all educating doctors. There's no question that if you're paying the piper, you influence the tune that the piper is going to play."

How is it possible for a drug to have $4 billion in sales without any evidence of benefit?

At the very same time Pfizer was in our office negotiating and resolving the allegations of criminal conduct in 2004, Pfizer was itself in its other operations violating those very same laws. They’ve repeatedly marketed drugs for things they knew they couldn’t demonstrate efficacy for. That’s clearly criminal.

Der ganze Medizinjournalismus und wahrscheinlich nicht nur der
Medizinjournalismus, der ist schon relativ durchdrungen von der Pharmaindustrie. Ich hab das erlebt, ich hab einen Artikel geschrieben für Zeitungen über eine unabhängige Patientenzeitschrift, also, die bewusst unabhängig ist und über Arzneimittel informiert, und da hab ich sehr viel Ärger bekommen. Also, eine Zeitung hat es letztlich gedruckt, eine zweite Zeitung, da wollte es der Redakteur drucken und hat dann Riesenärger mit seinem Chef bekommen, und der Chef hat ihm gesagt, dass von mir in Zukunft erst mal keine Artikel mehr gedruckt werden, und von einer dritten Redakteurin hab ich gehört: das wirft ja ein Geschmäckle auf unsere Zunft.

We mostly have ourselves to blame for societie's loss of trust in product safety and in the honesty of pharmaceutical businesses.

"Hinter fast jedem gebrochenen Bein einer Brasilienurlauberin steckt in Wahrheit eine Brustoperation".

Electricity in our villages can help control population growth. Electricity will lead to television in houses, which will lead to population control. When there is no light, people get engaged in the process of population growth.

Selling drugs is a lie. I sold drugs that I knew damn well—I sold Vioxx for Merck before it got taken off the market for killing people. I knew damn well it was dangerous; I went around telling them to write it. There’s a lot of serious lying I’ve done in my life.
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I’m doing a job. For me, in that case, Merck told me to go out and sell drug even though I had hesitation about it. It’s not for me to say. … Don’t listen to me. Read your fucking journals. Why the fuck are you listening to your rep? Just because I’m pretty? You think I know more about the drug? No.